Tom Pockley  
tom@woodturneruk.com


Collection of turned urns and platter
Woodturned Furniture and Musical Instruments

Furniture

I have made tables, varying from small coffee to dining tables, chairs and stools, standard lamps and music stands. 

I am always prepared to try fresh avenues and happy to accept commissions, which preferably involve turned parts.

I have also made spindles and Newel posts for staircases, and bedposts for four poster beds.

I can turn spindles nearly 8'6" long in one piece.

Sample Furniture

 

Cricketer's bench

   

I made these 2 oak hemispheres, 460mm in diameter, for Alun Heslop, who used them to make a bench for a cricket area in a park. Other work of his can be seen at www.chaircreative.com

 

 
Burr Elm Side Table 3 glass topped burr oak tables
Apple Candlestick Holders (about 4 feet high) Cherry Table
Yew and Ash tables
spindles for staircases
Oak dining table

Music Stands

I have made music stands normally in English hardwoods and to one of two designs which are either duet or single (the designs are called Lyre and Quotation and are illustrated below).

 

Musical Instruments
Oboe DennerBoxwood Oboe T Stanesby Sr

Listen to some sample tracks! - See below...

Having learnt the Oboe as a child, I have been interested in making these.  To date, I have made Baroque Oboes and a Classical Cor Anglais but am extending my range.

Helen McKean (Oboist) and David Butcher (Recording engineer) recently helped me to record some short extracts of pieces played on these instruments.  

If you would like to find out more about the recordings, please email me tom@woodturneruk.com

Instrument Collection with Rock Maple and Boxwood Cor Anglais by Grundmann

 

To listen to one of the tracks, just click on the track title, or select a Hi Fi or Lo Fi version.

Denner Oboe
Partita 5, Aria 5 Vivace, by Telemann (Denner oboe) [Lo-Fi] [Hi-Fi]

Stanesby Oboe
Fitzwilliam Sonata no.2 in B flat, Allegro, by Handel (Stanesby oboe)  [Lo-Fi] [Hi-Fi]

Cor Anglais
Adagio by Mozart - second part (Cor Anglais)[Lo-Fi] [Hi-Fi]
This passage of music is used by kind permission of the publisher Ludwig Doblinger (B. Herzmansky) KG., Wien according to their print edition DM1282 c1999.

Playing the Tracks: You will need an MPEG player to listen to the tracks. There are several free players available, e.g. Realplayer 7 Basic (the free version of Realplayer) - Click here to go to the download page.

Technical info: The lofi tracks should stream with all but the slowest modems; the hifi tracks are only likely to stream with a two channel ISDN or WAN/LAN connection.  (thanks David)

 
 

Tom Pockley  
Tom Pockley
Timber Cottage, The Street,
Stone in Oxney, Tenterden,
Kent TN30 7JN
Phone: 01233 758542
Email: tom@woodturneruk.com
  
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